As headlines today are dominated by the Tories AND Labour calling for more deportations & a more hostile environment
a reminder of the headlines that show our power is in mutual aid, community organising & direct action
Though this Gov is relentless, so will be our resistance
📣 'How the Nationality and Borders Act is endangering queer asylum in Britain' - Zehrah Hasan of Garden Court writes for @opendemocracy📣
"...the situation for people seeking asylum [has become] even more impossible over the past 2 years."
Read here 🔽
https://t.co/FDwNs5V8GZ
📢 Our Zehrah Hasan (@zedhas3) will be speaking at @SOASICOP's event 'Reframing Narratives Around Migration'.
🗓️ Wed 4 Dec, 7.15 - 8.45 pm
📍 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Explore how we can change the way we talk about #migration.
BOOK NOW 🔽
https://t.co/pdFMWawig7
Political leaders must stand up to #racism. Senior politicians making Islamophobic comments and the failure of parties to deal with #Islamophobia is a scandal. How can we unite against Islamophobia and empower Muslims in progressive spaces?➡️https://t.co/wpHdR3ZOrL
Working class & migrant communities across London are being displaced by billionaire developers. Plans by @yooworldwide to gentrify Shepherd’s Bush Market would destroy the market's character. @MayorOfLondon must reject the plans!
#SaveShepherdsBushMarket https://t.co/3iX5GURpet
Nejma Collective Presents: Policing Palestine, examining the experiences of Palestinian men, teens, and boys in the Israeli prison.
Register here: https://t.co/VjuqyuA2By
To those who say "Islam is a religion not a race, you can't be racist to Muslims" hate to break it to you but 'race' isn't what you think it is. Race is a set of shifting, socially constructed meanings written onto our bodies, structuring who accesses power vs who is oppressed.
🚨🚨 on Weds MPs will vote on the "anti-boycott" bill that will prevent unis and councils making ethical decisions about who they spend and invest with... especially in Israel. It's dystopia time. UK people, register your dissent.
✉️ Email MP https://t.co/fv772cZXh5
🚨Deportation alert 🚨
Alige is facing deportation today, on a @TurkishAirlines passenger flight.
Alige has two young children in the UK & he faces grave danger if he is forcibly removed to The Gambia, due to his support for LGBTQ+ rights.
Passengers can refuse to fly…
🚨Reports from our Legal Observers @ #CEASEFIRENOW 🇵🇸protest: heavy police presence restricting protest by confiscating speaker equipment, police cordons + arrests
🦺If you see police
arrests/harassment, find our Legal Observers for support
✍🏾Read our protests rights bustcards
✨RAID RESISTED✨
At 9am on New Years Day, immigration officers tried to carry out an immigration raid on a property on Wood Vale, SE23.
Fortunately, a member of the public saw them, and came to tell the residents their rights - not to let them in!
Here’s what happened:
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⚠️ We need your help.
This government wants to change the law so that #LGBTQ people who come here fleeing persecution in India or Georgia can be sent back to their countries without proper consideration of their asylum claims. (1/2) ⬇️
I can’t stop thinking about when Malcolm X said ‘the liberal is more deceitful and hypocritical than the conservatives’ - the same people who have built a career writing about revolutionary struggle are the same people who will sell you out to protect their careers.
The charity sector, NGOs and the UN will not bring us liberation. People are calling on them as if it was ever designed to serve and protect us. These sectors are tied to fundings e.g terms and conditions. It’s designed to serve and protect capital! 1/2